[HN Gopher] 'The Velveteen Rabbit' at 100: The story behind the ...
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       'The Velveteen Rabbit' at 100: The story behind the classic
       Christmas tale
        
       Author : samclemens
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-12-26 17:48 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | waltbosz wrote:
       | I have this idea for a Perry Bible Fellowship-esque comic that
       | presents an epilogue to the Velveteen Rabbit in which after being
       | transformed to a real rabbit he is found by a little girl who
       | bring him home to become a family pet. The final panel showing
       | her and her family dead by scarlet fever.
        
       | analog31 wrote:
       | In my family, whenever someone gets over an illness, someone else
       | mentions burning the velveteen rabbit. Likewise, if someone
       | coughs, someone else mutters "Gollum."
        
       | entropicgravity wrote:
       | I must have been away the day we learned of "The Velveteen
       | Rabbit".
        
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       | CharlesW wrote:
       | https://archive.vn/8Ah5S
        
       | irrational wrote:
       | Classic Christmas tale? Maybe I need to read it again, but I
       | don't recall what made it a Christmas tale. Did the kid receive
       | the toy at Christmas time?
        
       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | The Velveteen Technology Becomes Real
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       | "It's a thing that happens to a tech. When a userbase relies on a
       | technology for a long, long time, and someone (or even several
       | someones) creates a greenfield replacement that fixes all the
       | ugly bits, but no one switches due to network effects -- then
       | that tech becomes Real."
        
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